Pocket-scissors



C. F. DIETRICH.

POCKET SCISSORS.

APPLICATION man ocr. 14, mm.

1,354,807, Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

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CHARLES E. DIETRICI-I, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

POCKET-SCISSORS.

Application filed October 14, 1919.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES F. DLErRIoH, a citizen of Austria, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Ill1no1s, have invented certain new and useful 12mprovements in Pocket-Scissors, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to scissors and has for its object to provide an article of this nature which may be utilized as a hanger for supporting a hat and coat when a peg or like means is not available and which article may be conveniently carried in 'the pocket and also utilized for other purposes, such as a cigar cutter and a button hook.

The drawings illustrate a preferred embodiment of the invention. However it is to be understood that in adapting the same to meet different conditions, various changes in the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the nature of the invention as claimed hereinafter.

Referring to the accompanying drawings which illustrate an embodiment. of the invention;

Figure 1 is a view in elevation showing the scissors as adapted for a hat-and coat hanger, the dotted lines illustrating one manner of readily detaching the scissors from the support when it is required to remove the same.

Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the scissors showing the same partly open.

Fig. 3 is a top edge view of the scissors, the parts being in the position about as indicated-in Fig. 2, and

Fig. l is a horizontal section on the line 4l4 of Fig. 2.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in the several views of the drawings by like reference characters.

The scissors comprise complemental members which are pivotally connected in a manner well understood. In accordance with the present invention, it is preferred to have the members struck from sheet metal, such as steel of proper gage and as a result, the scissors may be opened so that the members may overlap and thereby admit of the article being conveniently carried in the pocket, the points and edges of the blades being protected. The members are of similar formation. One of the members consists of a blade 1 and a handle 2.

Specification of Letters Patent. I

drawing outwardly on the Patented Oct. 5, 1920. Serial No. 330,556.

The other member consists of a blade 3 and a handle L. The two members are pivotally connected at'5. The handles are offset from the blades and projections 6 are formed near the pivot connection of the members to afford a finish and to provide an extended bearing in the rear of the pivot 5 so as to cause the edges of the blades to work properly. One of the members is provided with an opening 7 which constitutes a cigar cutter, said opening being flared from the inner side of the blade outwardly, as indicated most clearly in Fig. 4. The cutting edge of the opening 7 cooperates with the cutting edge of the blade 3 so as to sever the end of the cigar when the same is introduced into the opening 7 and the scissors operated to cause the blades to close. The member 3 terminates in a book 8, which may be used as a coat hanger or for drawing buttons through a button hole. The handle 4 is provided with a spur 9 which is pointed and curved in its length. This spur provides attaching means for securing the article to a partition, door, or window frame, or other analogous support when it is required to use the scissors as a combined hat and coat hanger.

Fig. 1 shows the article when adapted for use as a combined hat and coat hanger. The article is placed in vertical position and is sustained in such position by means of a spur 9 which is pressed into the support. The shape of the spur retains it in position and weight applied to either the hook 8 or to the handle members tends to cause the spur 9 to penetrate the support and retain it in position. The coat or like article to be supported is engaged with the hook 8 and the hat or like article is placed over the bandle members. The end of the blade 1 engages the outer face of the support to which the scissors is attached and as indicated in Fig. l, the members are inclined to the ver tical and act as a brace. The spur may be readily disengaged from the support by handle 2 which tends to open the members and cause the rounded end 10 of the member 1 to ride on the surface of the support and thereby withdraw the spur 9. This is indicated most clearly by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. It will thus be understood that there is a cooperation between the two members, since one is adapted to be utilized as means to facilitate the detachment of the article from the support when it is required to remove the same.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is An article of the character and for the purpose herein specified, the same comprising two elongated members pivotally connected intermediate of their ends and having corresponding ends widened to form supporting means, and having one of the opposite'ends provided with an offstanding suspending element, and a pointed p enetratmg spur projecting outwardly from the widened end of one of the members to be pressed into a support and hold the device in operative position and adapted to be withdrawn from the support by moving the widened end of the other member outwardly.

Intestimony whereof I allix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES F. DIETRIOH.

\Vitnesses:

Y R. S. SAMoNsKI,

ROBERT J. EDWARDS. 

